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 [Google News] British farm hand infected by mild strain of... : ITV.comBritish farm hand infected by mild strain of bird flu Scotsman - 5 hours ago A POULTRY worker has contracted the H7 strain of bird flu in the form of conjunctivitis, the Health Protection Agency said last night. The male worker is thought to have contracted the infection after close contact with birds on a Norfolk farm.

[Pandemic Virus Facts and Information] Birdflu found on farm was not H5N1 - Scotsman: LONDON (Reuters) - The strain of bird flu found on a farm in eastern England is H7, not the lethal H5N1, and tests show the virus is low pathogenicity .

 [Google News] Birdflu found on farm was not H5N1 - Reuters.uk: Earthtimes.orgBirdflu found on farm was not H5N1 Reuters.uk - 4 hours ago LONDON (Reuters) - The strain of bird flu found on a farm in eastern England is H7, not the lethal H5N1, and tests show the virus is low pathogenicity, officials said on Friday. One farm worker has contracted .

 [Scotsman.com News - Latest News] Birdflu found on farm was not H5N1: The swan was the only wild bird found in Britain so far to have the H5N1 virus, which has spread from Asia to Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and led to the death and culling of 200 million birds since late 2003.

 [fluFactor] British Bird Flu: Now You See It! Now You... : There was a similar outbreak of H7N7 bird flu in the Netherlands in 2003 which led to the culling of some 30 million birds. The British order to cull the infected flock is a precautionary measure to insure that British poultry farmers don’t face the same kinds of losses that farmers in the Netherlands had to deal with three years ago.

[the defeatists!] Marvelous example of why we don't need to worry... : "I think they are all homosexual communists in Satan's army...I espect as well they all live together and bathe together every morning and have the anal sex with one another, with the fisting and the guinea pigs." - Manuel Estimulo

 [Sciencenewsblog.com] Science News Blog -- Bird Flu / Avian Flu: "There is more and more evidence building up that wild migratory birds do play some role in spreading the virus, but personally I believe -- and others agree -- that it's not a major role," said Ward Hagemeijer, a wild bird ecologist with Wetlands International, a conservation group in Wageningen, Netherlands. "If we would assume based on this evidence that wild birds would be a major carrier of the disease we would expect a more dramatic outbreak of the disease all over the world." Unfortunately, bird flu doesn't appear to be having much difficulty in spreading -- with or without the help of migratory birds.

 [Nature.com] news @ nature.com - -: newRows += getNewSubRow('DarksideoftheUniverse', '/news/infocus/DarksideoftheUniverse.html', 'Dark side of the Universe'); newRows += getNewSubRow('dinosaurs', '/news/infocus/dinosaurs.html', 'Dinosaurs'); newRows += getNewSubRow('climatechange', '/news/infocus/climatechange.html', 'Climate change'); newRows += getNewSubRow('futurecomputing', '/news/infocus/futurecomputing.html', 'Future computing'); newRows += getNewSubRow('antibiotics', '/news/infocus/antibiotics.html', 'Antibiotics'); newRows += getNewSubRow('stemcells', '/news/infocus/stemcells.html', 'Stem cells'); newRows += getNewSubRow('birdflu', '/news/infocus/birdflu.html', 'Bird flu');

[Birdflu.blogtopper.com] Bird Flu Protection Tips and News Blog: The State of Arizona has created an Bird Flu / Influenza Pandemic Response Plan to promote an effective response throughout an influenza pandemic. While a pandemic response is primarily a public health response, many agencies, organizations, and private institutions will need to work in a coordinated and collaborative manner to ensure an effective overall response in Arizona.

 [Bloggersblog.com] Bloggers Blog -- Bird Flu / Avian Flu: However, as the disease has spread and there have been more warnings from scientists and government leaders about the possibility of an unstoppable pandemic the number of bird flu bloggers has increased. Even more alarming was a recent study that found that the flu virus that caused the deadly 1918 flu pandemic also originated in birds just like the H5N1 strain that looms as a human threat today.

 [Guardian.co.uk] Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Special report: bird flu: April 6: Pathogenic avian flu landed on the borders of Europe in January this year. Having swept westward from south-east Asia, where it began in mid-2003, the current outbreak claimed its first Turkish victim in the town of Dogubayazit, close to the country's border with Iran, on January 1.

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